On 7/14/05, Andrew Baudouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> AMD Opteron workstations (At least, SUN doesn't and we couldn't find any

Sun asbsolutely does.  Just one example that might be of interest: 
http://store.sun.com/CMTemplate/CEServlet?process=SunStore&cmdViewProduct_CP&catid=133232&PROMO

> 
> A few days ago his primary hard disk crashed  (MAXTOR = SHIT).  No
> worries, he thought, just boot off of the second mirrored drive and get
> a RMA back from Dell.  He reboots only to find that Dell failed to set
> up the mirrored drive and the second drive was only sitting out there
> unused. He reinstalls Windows on the second good disk and attempts to
> read the data off of the bad one, which just results in infinite CHKDSK
> operations.  He begins pondering the thousand+dollars in data recovery
> costs (as a self-employed consultant, his data is priceless) 


Umm...  if he is working as a consultant, and has priceless data, and
is not backing it up, I don't think I would want to hire him.  I sure
hope he is telling his clients to do a better job backing up their
data more effectively than trusting that dell turned on mirroring! 
Besides, that is not a backup.

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